Word: eyeing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...appeal. But smart teachers will have no trouble peddling their substance in the form of handy guides to how the U.S. got the way it is ("Curiosity is more widely distributed than innate love of literature"). While imparting this kind of general education, Conant says, schoolteachers must keep an eye out for "gifted" boys & girls. Conant thinks that students with special aptitudes for mathematics and languages can be spotted in high school, almost as early as those with musical talent-and encouraged to walk a little faster than their neighbors...
...cluttered but technically clever Actors took third. Wyeth's almost monochromatic study showed that conservatism in art need not imply lack of imagination. Son of famed illustrator N. C. (Treasure Island) Wyeth, he had done justice to his drab subject in a way fresh enough to stop the eye, and hold the mind...
...Seventeen theaters in Leningrad were also jammed with fans, anxious to see the dramatization of Alexander Fadeev's best selling novel about Russian partisan heroes. Though the music wasn't what drew most of the crowds, Shostakovich could read his press notices and see, with a practiced eye, just where he stood...
...sports writers stand on the sidelines, noting precisely who does exactly what on each play. But the lights are so dim that a human being's naked eye can barely see the helmets, let alone the play, let even more alone who made the tackle, and the hell with who should have made the tackle but didn...
...minutes for longhand revisions, then jots down a few notes for his 8 a.m. broadcast. At 6:55 he plunges into the life & times of George Washington, writing in a clear, small hand on white, unlined paper. Freeman has three synchronized clocks in his office placed to catch his eye from any position (over one of them stands the stern sign: "Time is irreplaceable. Waste...